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POETICAL SELECTION si
FOR THE CENTLYF.L.
MR. RANDOLPH,
lx this ])ropitious time of Econom; and
accumulation, the following feeble essa\ to
wards diverting the leisure moments of your
readers, and of exposing to public view, cer
tain occurrence . and customs, deserving pub
lic disapprobation, may not be wholly unwor
thy your attention, or of insertion in ycur im
partial paoer.
'THE GOLDEN AGE,
OR STATE Os NATURE REVIVED.
TELL me ye knowing ones, tell me I pray,
W hy Itos a, charming, blooming, young Sc gav
Should cloister’d he, by revern’d age for life,
(With spirits choice, and feeble flesh at strife)
To mourn some joyless nights and cheerless
days,
And on far happier scenes of life to ga/.e
In sad de pondt ncy.—The reason’s plain,
The glorious golden age’s return’d again !
A golden chain can youthful fires assuage,
Confound distinctions just, ’twixt ytouth and
age;
Make hoarv age assume the garb of youth,
And youthful minds forsake the pathsof truth.
We’re in a state of nature, sure—’tis plain,
(And consequently in a golden reign)
Where oft we see within one lasting noose,
The aged gander with the gosling goose ;
And vice versa, see the callow he
Chattering, shivering, near the aged she;
Eut stranger still behold the lordly swan
And ebon goose to make a pair anon !
Then let us hail those times, those glorious
times.
When with fair freedom and the first of climes,
Columbians taste the heavenly bliss again,
Df “ follow ing nature in a golden reign.”
JUVENAL, jr.
PRLY'TLYCi.
BY MRS. Oo XSTANTIA GRIERSON.
HAIL Mystic Art! which Men like An
gels taught,
To speak to eyes, and paint embodied thought!
1 he deaf and dumb, blest skill, reliev’d by thee,
We make one sense perform the task of three.
We see....we hear....we touch the head & heart,
And take or give what each but yields in part;
With the hard laws of distance we dispense,
And, without sound, apart, commune in sense;
View, tho’ confin’d, nay, rule this earthly ball,
And travel o’er the wide expanded all.
Dead letters thus with living notions fraught,
Prove to the soul the telescope of thought;
I'o mortal life immortal honor give,
And hid all deeds and titles last and live.
In scanty life Eternity we taste,
\ iew the first ages, and inform the last;
Arts, History, Laws, we purchase with a look,
And keep, like Fate, all nature in a Book.
THE JUSTE ST PORTRAIT
Os Napoleon Bonaparte, that ever
urns exhibited.
EXTRACT.
Difficult indeed is the tusk of drawing
ouch a Portrait in genuine colons, and
as tracing it* features by the linea
ments of im/iartiality and truth. Few
men, ij any, exist without fiurticulur
predilections and aversions ; which,
when applied to national or personal
competitions, render a fair and candid
appreciation still more difficult. The
author, who has probably pourttdyed
his character with the greatest success,
is an F.nglishman in Paris, Mr. Tho
mas l:o i croft, who married a French
latlu, aval resided a considerable time
on the spot. Ilis delineations in mam/
respects, bespeak the hand of a master;
and where his coloring is defective, it
may be attributed to the difficulty of
pourtraying so extraordinary a Prince
with classical precision. In his “ tra
vels from Hamburgh, through West
phalia, Holland, and the Netherlands,
to Paris,” from which the following
extract is taken, he first enumerates !
the vices,and then the virtues of his hero, j
“ R >s the turn and concurrence of,
circumstances, that give the powers of
man their direction, stamp his charac
ter, and reconcile him to courses of ac
tion ; such even, as he may have once
held in abhorrence. In all the ardor
ot youth, when the intemperate ima
gination knew not where to rest, be
iore principles had been fixed by expe
rience, yet n. i ii:l after a burning thirst
ol lame had been excited in him, Bo
naparte found that dangerous engine,
that implement of human misery, an
army, at his command, and prompt to j
effect whatever purpose his rapid geni- j
us could conceive. He soon discover- >
ed the necessity there was to give that i
coloring to events that might produce ’
the effects intended : to conceal, j
to deceive to fix the attention on 1
false points, to flatter peasants, to speak
to princes in the lofty tone of menace,
to spur the soldier to attack by the
hopes of plunder, to hang him after
wards for the crime; to promise friend
ship to the vanquished, and then to
raise contributions, and strip them of
all they esteemed most precious; these
soon became the daily occurrences of
his active warfare ! Oh, had his genius
received another direction, had he been
impelled with no less force into the paths ■
of wisdom and benevolence, what a bless
ing to the world would he have been !
“ In Egypt he found a race much
more ignorant, more depraved, and
therefore still more addicted to the arts
I
ar '
of deceit, than in Italy ; and jie bent ]
i bis powers to the task of overcom
| i n g them in every member. Could
j they fight? He conquered them as well
'in valor as in sagacity. Could they
mislead and wear the mask of hypocri
sy ? Even in this they were not his
equals. Still his mighty mind gave ftub
lic fir oofs of the warnings and impulses it
received from truth ; to the man of dis-
there are passages in his state
flutters, that shew with •what force it
struck him ; and prove his
grandeur oj thought . To this hour,
changed as he gradually has been, and
j loaded as his horizon is with the clbuds of
splenetic ambition, it nevertheless occa
sionally emits a luminous bcant. But the
most fatal of all the circumstances
which has unfitted him for the task he
has assumed to himself, which is no
less than that of governing Europe, is,
that he has been habituated to the com
mand of armies.
u I have several times, says Mr.
Holer oft, been close to Napoleon ; his
stature is diminutive, his complexion
sallow, and his physiognomy bears
those marks which denote the labors
ol bis mind ; it is care-worn, but it is
also susceptible of great variety. From
his atrabillarious complexion, choler
■ might be certainly predicted; butirom
tne sedaleness of his eye, not of that
sudden and impetuous kind to which
lie is so very subject. There are va
rious traits, public and private, that
discover this mighty Chief to have at
tempted to copy Alexander, while he
was in Egypt; Cxsar during his Ita
lian campaigns, and Charlemagne since
he assumed the Imperial purple.—
Alien traversing the sands of Syria
and Egypt, he did not forget the Ly
bian deserts; Alexander was then his
model, ile placed a large statue of
Cxsar, allowed to be of excellent work
manship, fronting his apartment in the
I huilleries, that he might have it in
daily contemplation. Since the addi
tion of Helvetia and Italy t 0 i,i s dO
- mains, he has imitated the power of
Charlemagne. To sum up with accu
racy the various characters of this ex
traordinary personage, is a task to
which few persons will find themselves
adequate. There are two parties in
direct contradiction to each other; and
both ol them equally violent in asser
tion. One set of them attribute to
mm every human excellence ; in their
eyes he is not a man, but a deity •
another will not allow that he ever pos
sessed eminence of talent, discovered
a single virtue, or performed one ac
tion that cun be called good.
“ Let those who affirm that the sa
gacious Napoleon foresaw all that has
been or might be accomplished; plan
ned all that has been atchieved, and
with power little less than Omnipotent,
insured military conquest, and com
mander. civil triumph ; let these parti
sans enquire, whether a mind so capa
cious, could have been betrayed into
acts, so many of which are puerile, so
many more absurd, and a still greater
number are malevolent and destruc
• Uw. ie nature of true greatness
has ever been, and will be beneficicnt.
II Ins plans were so truly profound,
would not his means be more certain,
j hls CoU J more even, and his end more
j stclUe ' ls taciturnity in private, ap
-1 P ears t° be pride; but in his public
j acts, lus selfishness is too great to com
i niand aspect. Power, such as his par
tisans would have the world to believe
lie possesses, would better understand
itself, would act in silence, and strike
in the dark; it would pursue the even
tenor of its way, and disdain to vapor
o.i t 0 s °othe. 1 he excess of the pas
sions uniformly rob men of their sound
judgment, and render them malignant
and base.
. those who will not allow the
Emperor of 1- ranee any one good quali
' ty, what shall be answered ? Let them 1
j jo °ki n to history, and find under whose
j real or apparent command, actions so
! numerous and great have been per
j formed by a man of feeble mind,
j irresolute in conduct, and inconsistent
jin bis plans. Let them scrutinize the •
j Powers of the mind, and prove, if it be
I possi.de, from Let or from deduction, !
| V°' v u shoul( l happen in times so dread- ,
■ mjly contentious, that debility could ob- !
j tain and preserve the rule ; conquer
I enemies abroad, subvert rivals in pow-
I e . r at h°m e > profit by foreign and intes- 1
tine broils, overawe or reconcile sac-
tions, change the capricious destinies
of a capricious people, to that which
despotism calls order ; and establish a i
new dynasty, which, in ages of greater *
i ignoi ance, would long have continued -
permanent and beyond controul. Truth 1
is always found between the extremes, <
Napoleon is an extraordinary man who
has lived in still more extraordinary
times. The grand events of these
times were many of them military ; so,
as it happened, was his education, and
so were his propensities.—Such was the
lortuitous favor of circumstances, that
they caused him to appear a prodigy,
A first campaign elevated him to the
rank of a hero, the second showed him
a God ; he seemed to command events ;
in reality they cammanded him ; they
were his creator.
“ Early habits had powerfully concur
ed to fit him for the future accidents
under which he became placed and this
pre-disposition, and these accidents,
were further aided by a mind of such
ardor, and of such prolific ambition, th at
he has been hurried through the various
gradations which similar minds have
travelled ; and does, and will only differ
from them in similarity of fate, as far as
circumstances have varied and shall
hereafter vary: Sallow complexion,
length of face, a pointed nose, a projec
ting chin, and prominent cheek bones,
have distinquishecl the countenances of
fanatics and persecutors. Fanatics and
persecutors were often men of power
ful minds, but violent passions ; and be
tween such men and the Emperor of
France, allowing for times and circum
stances, in physiognomy, in talents, and
in manner of acting, there is a great re
semblance.”
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the first Tuesday in December next,
at the Court Douse in Lincoln county ,
at the usual hours,
Will be Sold,
A TR ACT of land in the coun
ty of Lincoln, on the waters of Savan
nan river, containing 200 acres more or
less, joining Thos. Walton and others,
known by the name of Clark’s fishing
place ; which tract of land is levied on
as the property of John Clark, to satis
fy an execution in favor of Thomas
Mounger, fcfco. against West Harris,
and Scott Montgomery, and also, John
Clark, as being security on the appeal.
ALSO,
One hundred acres of Land,
more or less, on the waters of Little
River, joining Walker and Dill; levi
ed on as the property of John Gordey,
to satisfy sundry executions against said
Gorely and Charles Kennon, and re
turned to me by a constable.
C. Stovall , S. L. C.
November 1. 15
SHERIFF’S SALIC
On the first Tuesday in December nsxt
at the Court House in Warren county ,
at the usual hours,
Will be Sold,
300 ACRES of land on the
waters ot Briar Creek, adjoining Mer
cer and others.
ALSO,
202 1-2 acres of land in Bald
win county, No. 219, 3d District; levi
ed on as the property of David Robert
son, at the instance of Wm. White,
adm’r. ALSO,
One bed and furniture, levied
on as the property of Peter Hodo, at
the instance of Thomas Springer.
ALSO,
One mare and colt, and twenty
barrels of corn, levied on as the proper
ty ol Edmund Dunaway, at the instance
of Josiah Beall.
ALSO,
100 acres of land adjoining
Henry Hight and Rudicil waters o
Hart’s creek, levied on as the property
of \\ illis Perry, at the instance of Cha
pel Heath ; the above pointed out by
the defendants.
Conditions Cash.
Jeremiah Beall, s. w. c.
November 1, 1806. 15
SHERIFF’S SALE.
0?i the first Tuesday in December next ,
at the Court House in Waynesborougli ,
Burke county, at the usual hours,
Will be Sold,
ONE. tract of land containing
two hundred acres, adjoining land of
Thomas Davies, deceased, and others,
on the waters of Boggy Gut, taken as 1
the property of Thomas Spright, dec. •
at the instance of Luke Deane.
ALSO,
One Sulkey taken as the pro- *
perty of William Maxwell, to satisfy r
f ields Kennedy, and others. t
ALSO,
One tract of land containing
five hundred acres, adjoining lands of
Amos Whitehead, and the estate of
- Jones, deceased, taken as the '
property ol Isaac Walker, to satisfy the (
executors of James Jones, deceased. [
Conditions Cash.
Gross Scruggs, S. B. C. J
November 1, ISO 6. 15
SHERIFF’S SALE.
Oil the fir at Tuesday in December next, at
the Court-house in Warren county at
the usual hours,
Will be Sold,
OaL large buy mare, seized
by execution on a mortgage from John
M‘Kinzie in fjtvor of Joshua Williams
Conditions, Cash.
J. Beall , W. C.
September IC. 8
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